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" I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. "
Charles Olson
Head
Towel
Sorry
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" The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. "
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" I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. "
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" This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. "
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Audience
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" I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. "
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" This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. "
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" I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago. "
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Young
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" Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. "
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" The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. "
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Imitation
Anyhow
Will
" I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. "
Charles Olson
Up
Grown
Cliches
" You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. "
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You
Tell
Interesting
" I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. "
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Anybody
Far
Than
" I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer. "
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Homer
Like
Sound
" You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. "
Charles Olson
My Life
People
Help
" You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. "
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Present
Right
You
" Fact is based upon vulgar matter. "
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Fact
Matter
Based